In June 2004, Labor's " troops home by Christmas " policy came under fire from U. S. President George W. Bush who, at a White House press conference during Howard's visit to Washington DC, described it as " disastrous ".

Duval, the Reverend lets her visit Howard Grove, Lady Howard's home, on an extended holiday.

Much financial help was offered towards building a new church in Brampton by Charles Howard MP ( George Howard's father ) on condition that he chose the architect.

Boone as seen from Howard's Knob Boone took its name from the famous pioneer and explorer Daniel Boone, who on several occasions camped at a site generally agreed to be within the present city limits.

The first book, Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One ( 1932 – 1933 ) ( 2003 ; published in the US as The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian ) includes Howard's notes on his fictional setting, as well as letters and poems concerning the genesis of his ideas.

( It is known from Robert E. Howard's writings that the Cimmerians were based on the Celts, a barbarian tribal group of early Europe.

In a letter to P. Schuyler Miller and John D. Clark in 1936 only three months before Howard's death, Conan is described as standing and weighing when he takes part in an attack on Venarium at only 15 years old, though being far from fully grown.

Downer said that he intended to elaborate further on Australian Prime Minister John Howard's promise of a seven-year extension of the SPARTECA – TCF scheme, which assists Fiji's textile, clothing, and footwear industry.

He opposed Howard's policy on asylum-seekers, campaigned in support of an Australian Republic and attacked what he perceived as a lack of integrity in Australian politics, together with former Labor prime minister Gough Whitlam, finding much common ground with his predecessor.

During Howard's prime ministership, Keating made occasional speeches strongly criticising his successor's social policies, and defending his own policies, such as those on East Timor.

Staubach then led his team 80 yards in 5 plays on the ensuing drive, scoring on a 34-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Percy Howard and cutting their deficit to 21 – 17 ( Howard's touchdown reception was the only catch of his NFL career ).

Furthermore, White sacked Bledsoe on back-to-back plays on the Patriots first drive after Howard's game-clinching touchdown return.

( For Kenneth Williams )" appeared on Howard's 2007 album Barefoot with Angels.

He has written books on subsequent Prime Ministers, Bob Hawke ( The Hawke Ascendency, 1984 ), Paul Keating ( The End of Certainty, 1992 ) and John Howard ( Howard's Decade, 2006 ).

Early on, Gull's friend James Hinton discusses his son Howard's theory of the " fourth dimension ", which proposes that time is a spatial dimension.

He was also known for his sword and sorcery, a fantasy genre he was instrumental in reviving through his editorial work on and continuation of Robert E. Howard's " Conan " cycle.

Howard's original system established three general cloud categories based on physical appearance and process of formation: cirriform ( mainly detached and wispy ), cumuliform or convective ( mostly detached and heaped, rolled, or rippled ), and non-convective stratiform ( mainly continuous layers in sheets ).

About fifteen years later, Emilien Renou, director of the Parc Saint-Maur and Montsouris observatories, began work on an elaboration of Howard's classifications that would lead to the introduction of altocumulus ( physically more closely related to stratocumulus than to cumulus ) and altostratus during the 1870s.

Tapiola was built on the principles of Ebenezar Howard's garden city.

Their first son, George Howard, was born on November 21, 1789 in Jennings House during Howard's term as Governor.

Dobbs is often used as a foil for Howard's philosophical comments on the value of gold and one's responsibilities to one's companions.

Two books focusing on the final flight, Flight 777 ( Ian Colvin, 1957 ), and In Search of My Father: A Portrait of Leslie Howard ( Ronald Howard, 1984 ), concluded that the Germans shot down Howard's DC-3 for the specific purpose of killing him.

Ronald Howard's book explores in great detail written German orders to the Ju 88 Staffel based in France, assigned to intercept the aircraft, as well as communiqués on the British side that verify intelligence reports of the time indicating a deliberate attack on Howard.

While ostensibly on " entertainer goodwill " tours at the behest of the British Council, Howard's intelligence-gathering activities had attracted German interest.

Former CIA agent Joseph B. Smith recalled that, in 1957, he was briefed by the National Security Agency on the need for secrecy and that Leslie Howard's death had been brought up.

Other roles in the elder Howard's movies include: a retirement home worker in Cocoon ( 1985 ), in both the 1986 film Gung Ho and the television series, a morgue attendant in Backdraft ( 1991 ), a Little League parent who taunts Steve Martin in Parenthood, a factory overseer in Far and Away ( 1992 ), flight controller Seymour Liebergot in Apollo 13 ( 1995 ), a television director in EDtv ( 1999 ), the mayor's assistant in How the Grinch Stole Christmas ( 2000 ).

In Ron Howard's movie adaptation of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the Grinch's schedule has an hour blocked off for Jazzercise.

Her plans with Buzz are crushed by Howard who claims her for himself, telling her " We both know what you want and you know I'm the one who can get it for you " – Eve needs Howard's influence as a producer as well as his silence concerning her devious rise to stardom.

* Janine Duvitski as Eve, Howard's assistant.

He had been severely affected by several tragedies occurring in a short period of time: Robert E. Howard's death by suicide ( 1936 ), Lovecraft's death from cancer ( 1937 ) and the deaths of his parents, which left him exhausted.

Howard's last significant on-screen role was a reprisal of his famous role as Opie Taylor in the 1986 TV movie Return to Mayberry, an Andy Griffith Show reunion reuniting him with Griffith, Don Knotts, and most of the cast.

Hal is able to slip away before the other women gleefully paint and attach streamers and tin cans to Howard's car, throwing rice and asking him where he'll take Rosemary for their honeymoon.

Howard's family ( Debbie Reynolds, Wilford Brimley, Gregory Jbara, Kate McGregor-Stewart, Alice Drummond, Selma Blair ), friends ( Debra Monk, Ernie Sabella, Joseph Maher, William Duell ), students ( Shawn Hatosy, Zak Orth, Lauren Ambrose, Alexandra Holden ), co-workers ( Lewis J. Stadlen, Deborah Rush, Kevin Chamberlin ), and Emily are naturally shocked, but that is nothing compared to Howard's own reaction of disbelief and indignation, and he angrily tries to reassure those who know him that he is heterosexual.

Howard's suspicions seem justified when his clerk, Ong Chi Seng ( Victor Sen Yung ), shows him a copy of a letter Leslie wrote to Hammond the day she killed him, telling him that her husband would be away that evening, and pleading with him to come -- implicitly threatening him if he did not come.

In April 1777, Howard's sister died leaving him £ 15, 000 and her house.

When Pew was jailed for drunk driving and petty theft early in 1982, Chris Walsh, Barry Adamson and Howard's brother Harry replaced him for live appearances and brief studio work.

Pollard, still convalescing, and Seabiscuit recovered together at Howard's ranch, with Pollard's new wife Agnes, who had nursed him through his initial recovery.

Howard's zero tolerance concerning non-Marxist, especially conservative, thinking makes him persecute one of the male participants of his seminar who, apart from wearing a university blazer and a tie which make him look like a student out of the 1950s, insists on being allowed to present his paper in the traditional, formal way, without being interrupted and without having to answer questions before he has finished his train of thought.

At one point in the novel Howard's promiscuity gets him into trouble when he is told that he might be sacked for " gross moral turpitude " ( which he defines to a female student of his as " raping large numbers of nuns "), but he shrugs off this accusation as being based on " a very vague concept, especially these days ".

Meanwhile, Lord Howard's brother, Edmund Howard, commanding men from Cheshire and Lancashire, fought with the section of the Scottish army commanded by the Chamberlain of Scotland, Alexander, Lord Home, and Thomas, Lord Dacre's force, who had been fighting Huntley, came to assist him.

Controversy centers on three points: 1 ) Howard's choice of Cemetery Hill as the key to defense ; 2 ) the timing of Howard's mid-afternoon order to abandon positions north and west of town ; and 3 ) Howard's reluctance to recognize that Hancock, his junior, had superseded him.

Some authors identify him as the Stygian serpent god Set from Robert E. Howard's Conan stories, and also with the Great Serpent worshiped by the Serpent People of Valusia from Howard's Kull stories.

Following Howard's refusal to offer such an assurance, in September 1985 Peacock sought to replace him with John Moore as Deputy Leader.

Excited at the prospect of his first child, he told Howard's wife, " I'll make him the richest kid in the world.